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First published in 1994. Mission Statements: A Guide to the
Corporate and Nonprofit Sectors offers the most exciting
opportunities for advancing the study of organization direction in
the four decades that it has been actively pursued. The study of
missions of organizations has remained on the "back burner" of
scholarly pursuits because of the great difficulty that researchers
have faced in gathering appropriate formal statements from
corporations and nonprofit organizations. As a result, the
importance of missions to distinguish among organizations and to
guide the development and execution of implementing strategies has
become a nearly universally endorsed but unenthusiastically
practiced element in organizational planning activities. This
information laden new book by John Graham and Wendy Havlick invites
managers and academic researchers to undertake the study of
missions with greater expectations that much can be learned about
the organizations, their leaders, and their strategies through a
comprehensive assessment of their written statements of values and
priorities.
First published in 1994. Mission Statements: A Guide to the
Corporate and Nonprofit Sectors offers the most exciting
opportunities for advancing the study of organization direction in
the four decades that it has been actively pursued. The study of
missions of organizations has remained on the "back burner" of
scholarly pursuits because of the great difficulty that researchers
have faced in gathering appropriate formal statements from
corporations and nonprofit organizations. As a result, the
importance of missions to distinguish among organizations and to
guide the development and execution of implementing strategies has
become a nearly universally endorsed but unenthusiastically
practiced element in organizational planning activities. This
information laden new book by John Graham and Wendy Havlick invites
managers and academic researchers to undertake the study of
missions with greater expectations that much can be learned about
the organizations, their leaders, and their strategies through a
comprehensive assessment of their written statements of values and
priorities.
Missing data have long plagued those conducting applied research in
the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Good missing data
analysis solutions are available, but practical information about
implementation of these solutions has been lacking. The objective
of Missing Data: Analysis and Design is to enable investigators who
are non-statisticians to implement modern missing data procedures
properly in their research, and reap the benefits in terms of
improved accuracy and statistical power. Missing Data: Analysis and
Design contains essential information for both beginners and
advanced readers. For researchers with limited missing data
analysis experience, this book offers an easy-to-read introduction
to the theoretical underpinnings of analysis of missing data;
provides clear, step-by-step instructions for performing
state-of-the-art multiple imputation analyses; and offers practical
advice, based on over 20 years' experience, for avoiding and
troubleshooting problems. For more advanced readers, unique
discussions of attrition, non-Monte-Carlo techniques for
simulations involving missing data, evaluation of the benefits of
auxiliary variables, and highly cost-effective planned missing data
designs are provided. The author lays out missing data theory in a
plain English style that is accessible and precise. Most analysis
described in the book are conducted using the well-known
statistical software packages SAS and SPSS, supplemented by Norm
2.03 and associated Java-based automation utilities. A related web
site contains free downloads of the supplementary software, as well
as sample empirical data sets and a variety of practical exercises
described in the book to enhance and reinforce the reader's
learning experience. Missing Data: Analysis and Design and its web
site work together to enable beginners to gain confidence in their
ability to conduct missing data analysis, and more advanced readers
to expand their skill set.
Missing data have long plagued those conducting applied research
in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Good missing data
analysis solutions are available, but practical information about
implementation of these solutions has been lacking. The objective
of "Missing Data: Analysis and Design" is to enable investigators
who are non-statisticians to implement modern missing data
procedures properly in their research, and reap the benefits in
terms of improved accuracy and statistical power.
"Missing Data: Analysis and Design" contains essential
information for both beginners and advanced readers. For
researchers with limited missing data analysis experience, this
book offers an easy-to-read introduction to the theoretical
underpinnings of analysis of missing data; provides clear,
step-by-step instructions for performing state-of-the-art multiple
imputation analyses; and offers practical advice, based on over 20
years' experience, for avoiding and troubleshooting problems. For
more advanced readers, unique discussions of attrition,
non-Monte-Carlo techniques for simulations involving missing data,
evaluation of the benefits of auxiliary variables, and highly
cost-effective planned missing data designs are provided.
The author lays out missing data theory in a plain English style
that is accessible and precise. Most analysis described in the book
are conducted using the well-known statistical software packages
SAS and SPSS, supplemented by Norm 2.03 and associated Java-based
automation utilities. A related web site contains free downloads of
the supplementary software, as well as sample empirical data sets
and a variety of practical exercises described in the book to
enhance and reinforce the reader s learning experience. "Missing
Data: Analysis and Design" and its web site work together to enable
beginners to gain confidence in their ability to conduct missing
data analysis, and more advanced readers to expand their skill set.
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In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often
dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as
varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans,
Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert
monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the
CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister
Pearson. In a career that spans the Canadian foreign service and
international organizations, he was fortunate to be in the right
place at interesting, if turbulent, times. Throughout the book he
has focussed on the lighter side of people and places, but almost
everywhere the dark side intrudes. Graham makes plain that the
intersection of the two is frequently black comedy.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
During the 1980s, the issue of child support emerged on the
national agenda. Federal and state governments in the United States
focused on the private obligations of parents to support their
children, strengthening existing child support laws and
establishing new ones. In this book, Andrea H. Beller and John W.
Graham discuss what went right and what went wrong with child
support payments during this period, investigating the
socioeconomic and legal factors that determined child support
awards and receipts, documenting why few gains were made in child
support overall during the 1980s, and offering policy
recommendations for the future. Analyzing Census Bureau data on
child support awards and receipts beginning in 1979, Beller and
Graham find that there were some minor improvements in the system
and that these were due to changes in the legal and social
environment surrounding child support. However, say the authors,
many problems persist: the real value of child support awards and
receipts has declined sharply, and black and never-married mothers,
despite making some gains, continue to fare worse in the process
than do non-black and previously married mothers. The authors
evaluate the effectiveness of new federally mandated child support
enforcement techniques and guidelines by focusing on how such laws
worked in states that had them prior to the federal mandate. They
also look for the first time at the indirect consequences of child
support, showing how it affects mothers' decisions about work,
welfare, and remarriage and their children's decisions about
continuing their education.
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